Rex Kramer wrote:Thanks for the tip on the Nike app, looks like I've saved myself £60. Tried it this morning, turns out my mapmyrun 5k route isn't quite as 5k as I thought so I'm about 30 secs slower. Really helpful with splits, achievements etc so I can see this will really help me improve.

Great to hear mate! My friend uses mapmyrun and we did a 15km route together and her app claimed it was 17km - we worked it out afterwards and Nike + was correct! So I'd recommend the Nike one!

Had the Reading Half this morning. When can I do the next one? That was honestly the most incredible fun!

I ran today with a friend and she really started struggling with a foot/cramp quite early on so I just stayed with her and got her around in under 2 hours. We did it in 1:58. My PB is 1:48:45 but to be honest, I was able to enjoy it so much more without the pressure of trying to beat a testing time for me. Was so much more of an enjoyable experience Nice route too apart from the final mile on an A road before the Madejski Stadium final bit...

Does anyone else have an issue with their headphones continually falling out of their ears? If so, I can definitely recommend the Inairs memory foam replacement tips. I've only used them once at the moment but they were fantastic this morning, seated really comfortably, barely moved while running. I've no idea how they'll be 20 runs down the line but at the moment I'm pretty impressed. I think you need to be careful when ordering as they have both 3 different sizes for your ear and also 3 different sizes of headphone that they fit (there's a guide on their website) and you can get them from Amazon for about £8 for 3 pairs.

Completely looking forward to the next organised half. Going to try and start training for a full marathon but I feel like that's quite a long way away as yet... Trying to choose a run for over summer before the Bournemouth one in Oct

Only .1 miles off being 10k so as good as I work in km - Not because it sounds more impressive but I've found I'm able to judge distances far better in km while I'm running, even though I use miles for all other distance calculations when I'm travelling. Completely logical, obviously! 52:57 is a really good time for a 10k - particularly when it was your first one for a while! Nice one!